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04-03-2018, 05:58 PM | #13 | ||||||
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You're a couple days late for April foolin' Tom...
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04-03-2018, 06:03 PM | #14 | ||||||
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It's a mystery to me. Before the problem, the doll's head was nicely engraved and fit perfectly. No sign of work having been performed. The gun also had a woodcock engraved on the trigger guard with some nice scroll.
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04-03-2018, 07:38 PM | #15 | ||||||
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Well, mystery solved. But why it wod be two piece dolls head is curious. Perhaps a repair due to a bad drop on the dolls head before tig welding was available. Thanks for sharing the story Tom.
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04-03-2018, 09:57 PM | #16 | ||||||
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" It is possible this firearms has undergone professional modifications in the past, however cannot be confirmed"
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04-04-2018, 08:10 AM | #17 | ||||||
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Maybe it has something to do with the Elk’s thingy...
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04-04-2018, 06:39 PM | #18 | ||||||
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You could be right. But that thingy always impressed me as great attention to detail on the part of the Parker engraver. I would like to have that gun back but I'm choking on paying $3900 more than I paid for the gun originally. I don't think its worth the asking price. Too bad, if the price was right I would buy it and send it to you to fix the doll's head.
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04-04-2018, 06:46 PM | #19 | ||||||
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One more thing....Kevin McCormack looked at that gun and then turned away muttering something about elk on a bird gun. The detailed execution was lost on him. I thought that was hilarious.
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04-04-2018, 07:38 PM | #20 | ||||||
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Luckily, the floorplate engraving of the elk on my 16 ga. 0 frame AH Damascus gun is so worn from 121 years of handling that the details of the genitalia are not discernible.
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